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IMDb provides an extensive overview of the life and career of Bette Davis, one of the greatest actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age. Learn about her early stage roles, her Oscar wins and nominations, her marriages and affairs, and her later works.
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- Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Marianne falls in love with a con artist who has a hidden agenda. Director Hobart Henley Stars Conrad Nagel Sidney Fox Bette Davis. 2. Seed. 1931 1h 36m. 7.3 (605) Rate. Bart is a clerk for a publishing company. He has written a novel.
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Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but then she discovered the stage, and gave up dancing...
After graduation from Cushing Academy, she was refused admittance to Eva Le Gallienne's Manhattan Civic Repertory. She enrolled in John Murray Anderson's Dramatic School and was the star pupil. She was in the off-Broadway play \"The Earth Between\" (1923), and her Broadway debut in 1929 was in \"Broken Dishes\". She also appeared in \"Solid South\"...
In 1932, she signed a seven-year deal with Warner Brothers Pictures. Her first film with them was Seed (1931). She became a star after her appearance in The Man Who Played God (1932), known as the actress that could play a variety of very strong and complex roles. More fairly successful movies followed, but it was the role of Mildred Rogers in RKO'...
In 1936, she was suspended without pay for turning down a role that she deemed unworthy of her talent. She went to England, where she had planned to make movies, but was stopped by Warner Bros. because she was still under contract to them. They did not want her to work anywhere. Although she sued to get out of her contract, she lost. Still, they be...
She received an Oscar nomination for her role as a demented former child star in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). This brought about a new round of super-stardom for generations of fans who were not familiar with her work. Two years later, she starred in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). Bette was married four times.
In 1977 she received the AFI's Lifetime Achievement Award and in 1979 she won a Best Actress Emmy for Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter (1979). In 1977-78 she moved from Connecticut to Los Angeles and filmed a pilot for the series Hotel (1983), which she called Brothel. She refused to do the TV series and suffered a stroke during this t...
Sadly, Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989, of metastasized breast cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Many of her fans refused to believe she was gone.
Learn about the life and career of Bette Davis, one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood's golden era. From her early stage debut to her Oscar wins, her marriages, her comebacks and her death, this web page covers it all.
- April 5, 1908
- October 6, 1989
Bette Davis Filmography. by bwolskin-9 • Created 5 years ago • Modified 4 years ago. Most of her best films I saw 25 to 30 years ago and need to be re-evaluated to see if they still hold up because many of the films I've seen recently haven't really impressed me...these are all the films I've seen from best to worst.
18 BEST BETTE DAVIS MOVIES. A dozen and a half of the very best of Bette Davis---combining her best acting with films of the highest caliber---and I may even throw in a few guilty pleasure movies of hers---see if you can guess which ones.
Top 25 Films Of Bette Davis. by mace0204 • Created 12 years ago • Modified 12 years ago. My favorite films of one of the greatest actresses that ever lived.
